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Yes, the ground floor is the first floor. I really don't see the problem.
By the way, I've seen it both ways in America. Some buildings have a G for ground, and 1 for the floor above it. Others just have 1 for ground floors.
The real question is, should there be a 13th floor? Or should it skip from 12 to 14? 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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But we fix that by skipping the 13th floor. 
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0 is ground level. A floor is above ground level, and anything else is wrong.
If 1 was ground floor, 0 would be in the ground. Then it would stop making sense to even count negative.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Over here the floor at ground level is the first floor. It does make sense in a way, since the highest floor has a number equal to the total number of floors. The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
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Indivara wrote: The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix.
Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote: My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right.
Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
An alternate dimension.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or the crematorium?? But then that is an alternate dimension!!
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Actually you'd enter the 'Twilight Zone'.
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The cellars? Much more gothic than the basements.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
The Coffee machines, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It gets worse actually
Mezzanine is M.
Roof is R or RF.
Basement is B or BF when only one level is underground.
Platform is P, except when it is Parking.
Sometimes the car park floors are closer together and get separate numbers P1 onwards, which correspond to different floor numbers of the building.
And sometimes they are labelled in Japanese, making a ride on the elevator more adventurous.
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Too confusing, I'll be taking the stairs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Indivara wrote: Platform is P, except when it is Parking.
Or Penthouse.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Agreed. I think some folk are confusing counting floors, with counting ceilings
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
What about "terrace" buildings that are built on the side of a hill, having more than one ground level floor?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: having more than one ground level floor?
Go to the top of the building. Jump. Count ground floors on impact.
One impact, one ground floor.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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a floor is a floor. A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle.
if you have 2 floors is your list, I mean building!
How many items in your Building?
2 floors.
And so the first floor in your building is the [0] item, no, i mean [0] floor.
As such it is Ground Floor.
And the 2nd item in your building is the 1st Floor.
See, simple.
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Indivara wrote: No it is the first floor!
Elder one is a data scientist.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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In past lives, one was a C programmer, the other was a Fortran programmer. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think I have spotted the problem here. The elder programs in Excel while the younger programs in C#
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The problem is that many people associate the word "first" with the number "one" and think that the two concepts are the same when they are not, they are distinct concepts.
In your children's case; I suspect that both are correct.
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He has clearly developed a healthy disdain for VB (but probably doesn't know it yet.) 
Marc
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It gets weirder: Some countries have different way to count floors. In Russia, the ground floor is the first floor. So a building with 3 floors has floors 1 to 3. In Germany, the ground floor is called the ground floor and the second floor is called the first floor. So a three-floor building would have floors 0 (ground) to 2. At least, there's a word for "above-ground floor" which I use.
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Useful, as it answers the real question: how many flights of stairs I have to climb? 0, 1, 2.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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